Place To Start If No Alternatives - Java Software Developer FDM Group Employee Review

3.0
Aug 26, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook

Pros

Good place to start if you have no other method to break into finance. There are some great trainers and staff looking to make sure you do well as long as you put in effort. Everyone is a resource so take advantage to get insight from them to make your own decision. Make yourself well known to the managers. Every week. Be on their case. Ask for feedback to the point of annoyance.

Cons

You are very underpaid once you get on site with clients. Contract length and penalty are hefty in my opinion but with that said, you are made aware of it. It is not fine print or sneakily given to you. They are very upfront with it. Some account managers can be impersonal but to be honest, if you are one to take that personally, finance industry is not for you. This is a business at the end of the day and nothing is handed to you.

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Pros

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Cons

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Pros

It is a job that pays.

Cons

They will promise you opportunities that don't exist. The company they contract you to will promise you work that you will not be assigned. I was a Java Consultant with a masters degree in Math and certificate in full stack and I was shoved into a manual testing position that required zero coding and constantly dangled automation in front of my face. When I was asked to look at Selenium, I studied it in some of the copious amounts of downtime i had and was reprimanded during the next meeting for 'wasting company time'. I moved from Texas to New Jersey for my first position. After contracts with the company were terminated, I was pulled off my assignment only to be abruptly fired for "lack of geoflexibility" despite willingness to move to several places they do business including NYC and even Denver. There is no accountability from them as the only response they give is "the decision is final". There is no way to appeal a blatant lie. Their company has no integrity and side with business majors over people that know how chemicals and physics and electrical components work just seem like bad life decisions. They will say you can reapply but they won't hire you. They'd full of it at every angle.

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